My Boxing Day Game in a Nutshell
Yesterday, Boxing Day was upon us and I was ready for some gaming action. I had prepared a couple of adventures for the day and was excited to be running Men In Black The Roleplaying Game by West End Games.
I had watched the trilogy in order to prepare for the day, and then I caught the new trailer of Men In Black International. Now this gave me an idea for my scenario to create a MiB Canada base situated in Toronto, ON.
So now, as I waited to see who’d show up for the Boxing Day game, I had a couple of players inform me they couldn’t attend due to work and life commitments. Though, I had confirmation from two players who’d say they be by for the day at least.
On of my players showed up a little early and we socialized for a bit before I decided that maybe we could so something a little different as we waited for the other player to show up.
I asked the Mrs. and the kids if they wanted to play some Jenga and they were up to the challenge. We had a few games of building up the tower and watching it tumble to the ground once it became to unstable to stand on it’s on merits.
It was a good start of Game Day and when the second player showed up he sat in a couple of rounds as well. He had never played Jenga before and to him it was a new experience.
I know there is a role playing game out there that uses a towering blocks concept for it’s gaming mechanics. Dread is a diceless horror/suspense role playing game that focus on the storytelling and builds suspense as players remove a block from it. And by watching the reaction of those around the table by playing regular Jenga; I just might have to give Dread a go! More information about Dread can be found here: http://www.tiltingatwindmills.net/games/dread/
Before the actual role playing began, one of my players presented me with a belated Xmas gift; Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes for the fifth edition of Dungeons and Dragons.
Another player commented “Great just what he really needs more monsters to throw at us!”. Indeed it is a book of more foes to throw at my players, but it does have some background information on other races and how they coincide in the world they live in. I plan on giving it a good read through when we jump back in to our regular D&D campaign (once the holiday season has wrapped up).
It was a pretty sweet present for me that’s for sure. My fifth edition books are slowly growing and taking up more space on my bookshelf.
And thus it was time to start our MiB Session. With two players they choosed from the pregenerated character sheets and had to tweak the player by giving them a name and have extra dice to put into skills.
When that was over we had Agent C and Agent H. C being the charismatic leader and H being the young tough muscle of the duo. I explained that the adventure would be a dark and not as light as the movies were; but they understood that the movies themselves were light-hearted also had a huge amount of death:
A bug devours a farmer and slips into his skin, An alien get’s shout and blows up really good with entrails splattered about. An exterminator get’s killed by Edgar by forcing bug spray down his throat. Edgar kills two aliens in a cafe, as well as a waiter whom he folded like a sheet into a cupboard, etc.,
With that cheerily in mind, we begun our adventure. Agent C and H are called into Q’s office in which he has an assignment for them. Agent C being the elder and more experience member is in charge; showing the ropes to the inexperienced H. There’s something strange going on in a small town in Northern Ontario and they need to investigate.
A UFO had entered the atmosphere and didn’t report. Now, they got to go and find it and see if any other actions are warranted. It’s an eye opener for the players as they encounter the Gordon Ramsey of alien chefs, his dim-witted sidekick and the secret of what “Juicy Morsel Burgers” are made.
I’ll go into a little more details in another post, but there you have it folks. My Boxing day in a nutshell.
I had watched the trilogy in order to prepare for the day, and then I caught the new trailer of Men In Black International. Now this gave me an idea for my scenario to create a MiB Canada base situated in Toronto, ON.
So now, as I waited to see who’d show up for the Boxing Day game, I had a couple of players inform me they couldn’t attend due to work and life commitments. Though, I had confirmation from two players who’d say they be by for the day at least.
On of my players showed up a little early and we socialized for a bit before I decided that maybe we could so something a little different as we waited for the other player to show up.
I asked the Mrs. and the kids if they wanted to play some Jenga and they were up to the challenge. We had a few games of building up the tower and watching it tumble to the ground once it became to unstable to stand on it’s on merits.
It was a good start of Game Day and when the second player showed up he sat in a couple of rounds as well. He had never played Jenga before and to him it was a new experience.
I know there is a role playing game out there that uses a towering blocks concept for it’s gaming mechanics. Dread is a diceless horror/suspense role playing game that focus on the storytelling and builds suspense as players remove a block from it. And by watching the reaction of those around the table by playing regular Jenga; I just might have to give Dread a go! More information about Dread can be found here: http://www.tiltingatwindmills.net/games/dread/
Before the actual role playing began, one of my players presented me with a belated Xmas gift; Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes for the fifth edition of Dungeons and Dragons.
Another player commented “Great just what he really needs more monsters to throw at us!”. Indeed it is a book of more foes to throw at my players, but it does have some background information on other races and how they coincide in the world they live in. I plan on giving it a good read through when we jump back in to our regular D&D campaign (once the holiday season has wrapped up).
It was a pretty sweet present for me that’s for sure. My fifth edition books are slowly growing and taking up more space on my bookshelf.
And thus it was time to start our MiB Session. With two players they choosed from the pregenerated character sheets and had to tweak the player by giving them a name and have extra dice to put into skills.
When that was over we had Agent C and Agent H. C being the charismatic leader and H being the young tough muscle of the duo. I explained that the adventure would be a dark and not as light as the movies were; but they understood that the movies themselves were light-hearted also had a huge amount of death:
A bug devours a farmer and slips into his skin, An alien get’s shout and blows up really good with entrails splattered about. An exterminator get’s killed by Edgar by forcing bug spray down his throat. Edgar kills two aliens in a cafe, as well as a waiter whom he folded like a sheet into a cupboard, etc.,
With that cheerily in mind, we begun our adventure. Agent C and H are called into Q’s office in which he has an assignment for them. Agent C being the elder and more experience member is in charge; showing the ropes to the inexperienced H. There’s something strange going on in a small town in Northern Ontario and they need to investigate.
A UFO had entered the atmosphere and didn’t report. Now, they got to go and find it and see if any other actions are warranted. It’s an eye opener for the players as they encounter the Gordon Ramsey of alien chefs, his dim-witted sidekick and the secret of what “Juicy Morsel Burgers” are made.
I’ll go into a little more details in another post, but there you have it folks. My Boxing day in a nutshell.